Simple, professional, closed captioning and subtitling for your NLE

What We Mean By NLE (HD)
CPC's NLE workflow for professional HD video uses one of two basic workflows. If you or your post facility uses Final Cut Pro and has a AJA Kona card (3, LHi, LHe, LSe) or a Matrox MXO2, you can use our eCaptioning service to create your HD Captions (608/708).

Typically this workflow is used by someone who will output their HD master (e.g. HDCAM, HDCAM SR) from their non-linear editing system via HD-SDI.

What You Will Need
The first thing you need in order to get something closed captioned is a transcript. There are several ways to create one, and CPC also offers a transcription service.

You will also need a proxy movie. Even though the final product is HD resolution, a much smaller video such as Quicktime (H.264 320x240) is sufficient to make caption files (and easier to send!).

Once CPC has both these items, we can start the closed captioning process.

What You Get From us
After the captioning process is complete, we will email you a small .zip file that, when unzipped, will be a caption file tailored to your specific NLE.

How To Use The Caption File
Your caption file works in one of two ways:

-AJA Workflow: The caption file is a type of Quicktime Reference that is selected in Final Cut Pro's Edit to Tape window, under the Mastering Settings tab.

-Matrox Workflow: The caption file is an audio file that is placed on track eight of the timeline.

In both cases you should also set your hadware preferences in System Preferences under the Apple Menu. See our tutorials page for more details on these workflows.

Other Options
Repurposing Captions: It is also possible for CPC to extract closed captions from video and repurpose them by encoding to another format.

Physical Media: While eCaptioning allows you to keep quality control in-house and makes it unncessary to mail tapes, we understand this may not work for everyone. If it suits your workflow we can also work with a tapes you send us and then mail you back a new tape with closed captions. We can do this with every format from DVD to BetaSP.